Léon Reinach (May 24, 1893- May 12, 1944) was a French composer and art collector who was murdered in the Holocaust.
[1][2] Born in 1893 into the illustrious Reinach family, Léon Reinach descended from an illustrious family of statesmen and scientists: his uncle Joseph had been Gambetta's cabinet director, a member of parliament and a staunch Dreyfus supporter; his uncle Salomon, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, a historian of art and religion and a prolific author, was a Hellenist, as was his father Théodore, a member of the Institut who built the Villa Kérylos in Beaulieu, a synthesis of his erudition and his imagination.
[4] Their daughter Fanny was born in 1920, and they lived with her father-in-law in the hotel at 63, rue de Monceau.
When Nazi Germany occupied France in 1940, the Reinachs were persecuted because of their Jewish heritage.
Interned at Drancy with Béatrice and her children, he was deported with Fanny and Bertrand on November 20, 1943 to Auschwitz on convoy 62, and was killed.